I’ve been reading all the great things about Amazon EC2 (or Elastic Compute Cloud) and lots of pricing comparisons with VPS and dedicated hosting. I finally got an EC2 account and tinkered a bit and there’s a big difference between EC2 and Virtual Private Server or Dedicated hosting that most of the preliminary write-ups I’ve seen completely overlook.
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Most systems administrators will tell you it’s important to partition your install into anywhere from 4-7 discrete patitions (or slices if you’re in the BSD camp). While I think it’s good advice in certain cases, the headaches of mis-guessing disk space requirements have bitten me so many times that I’ve grown jaded and only create a new partition for a filesystem if there’s a really good reason such as:
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I live in San Francisco and work as a consultant to Common Sense Media and Greatschools.
I stopped working full-time back in October of 2007 so we could take 8 months off and sail down to Mexico. And no, I'm not a dot com millionaire that's retired, I still need to work for a living.
Our boat is in Mexico right now and we'll be going down for another 6 months starting in February of 2009. When we get back in August of 2009 I'll start looking for another full-time CTO job.
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